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- Energy: Concepts and careers
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 3.9
- In this lesson for grade 6, students will analyze the law of conservation of energy and will apply energy concepts to skateboarding. Students will also explore careers related to energy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)
- By April Galloway and Christine Scott.
- Forces, Motion, and Simple Machines
- Investigate forces and motion in technological designs, including friction, forces, inertia, simple machines, and gravity.
- Format: bibliography/help
- How do hurricanes cause damage to coastal infrastructure?
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 2.1
- A fully formed hurricane carries three major threats to coastal development: low atmospheric pressure, high surface winds, and heavy rainfall. These threats are realized in different ways. Low central pressure becomes a threat when...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Winter advisory: The effect of salt on the freezing point of water
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 5.9
- In this lesson, students complete a lab to help them understand the effect of salt on the freezing point of water. Students discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using salt as a de-icing and anti-icing agent on roads.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- By Tammy Johnson and Martha Tedrow.
- Blast off the wet way
- This lesson takes 6–10 days and includes math classes in which students will serve as observers and will calculate the height that the rocket reached and time elapsed. In the science class the students will design, build, launch, and do a detailed analysis of the acceleration, speed, and force produced by water-filled two-liter rockets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Jack Curtis.
- Wheelin' fun
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.6
- In this lesson for grade seven, students participate in a car-racing lab, and make observations about how design affects speed. Students discuss how the lab applies to careers in motor sports.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By Emma Couch.Adapted by Michelle Arias.
- Quick study: Mississippian Period
- A “cheat sheet” covering basic information about the Mississippian Period and its key characteristics.
- Global education as good pedagogy
- A wide variety of teaching strategies and resources pass under the name of global education. This article provides strategies for evaluating global education and ensuring that it focuses on students' academic success.
- By Suzanne Gulledge.
- Spanish empire failed to conquer Southeast
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.6
- Juan Pardo’s expedition erected six forts in the Southeastern interior, including one at Guatari. Most of them seem to have fallen in short order. That result wasn’t surprising. The forts were isolated, lightly garrisoned in most cases, dependent on the Indians for food, and prone to trigger Indian resentment.
- Format: article
- Get your character education act together!
- Elements of an effective character education program and lots of ideas for implementation—all across the curriculum.
- By Frances B. Lewis.
- Rutherford Trace
- In 1776, during the War for Independence, an expedition led by Griffith Rutherford sought to eliminate the Cherokee as a British ally and to punish them for attacking white settlements. In one month, Rutherford’s men left dozens of Cherokee villages in ruins with hundreds of acres of crops destroyed and livestock killed or seized. Residents of western North Carolina still tell multiple sides of the story.
- Format: article
Resources on the web
- Investigations: Dirtmeister's Science Reporters
- Science is all around us — from a bicycle brake to a pine cone to a flag pole. In "Dirtmeister's Science Reporters," students lead their own investigation in observing, identifying, and describing the science found in their world — then write about... (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: Scholastic
- BBC Schools - BiteSize Revision
- Animations, fact sheets and interactive content in English, Math and Science for upper elementary students. (Learn more)
- Format: website/activity
- Provided by: BBC Schools
- Bill Nye, Science Guy
- Bill Nye is the enthusiastic, bow-tied scientist on the Public Broadcasting System. At this site you will find information about Bill Nye, a question of the week, and memos from Bill in the U-Nye-Verse section. When this site was cataloged this memo contained... (Learn more)
- Format: website
- Provided by: Nye Labs
- Dryer sheets
- In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, students hear how the old saying “opposites attract” relates to your laundry. Positively charged particles are attracted to negatively charged particles, which can cause static cling in clothing. (Learn more)
- Format: activity/lesson plan (grade 8 Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- The Science of Cycling
- In addition to interesting and informative text, this site uses audio and video clips, interactive javascripts, and lots of images to explain the science in the sport of cycling. Learn about the history of the wheel; how gears work; what forces keep your bike... (Learn more)
- Format: website/general
- Provided by: Exploratorium
